River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-08-11
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worth. late Of Deru>ide, was sorting
papers and uuburut correspondence he
h1d LEFT when summoned with such
small warming twelve months agofrom
the horne they two had peacefully in
habited since her childhood. Every
scrap of his own writing She saved;
she had 80 little Of it. for Mr.. Went
worth. proud and grabbed as some
called him. though always Kind To this
one child. ha,I kept up but rare inter
course with the outer world. Except
for exact accounts with his steward
Honoria scarcely knew him To take pen
in hand once week. and mi>Sives To
him We're rarcr still: 80 the task she
had put of through the first Borrowing
year promised 10 Dee a light one, till
one bit Of note-paper suddenly made it
very heavy-thr heaviest load her DAYS
had ever known
She might have burned it with the
rest. this fortunc-freighted missive but
a line or two i'm Mr. Wentworth'> own
hand. written cros>wi-e On the sheet,
attracted her attention
Answered in the negative same day
a received. e. W. Aug, 1, lSS-.'
this postscript ran.
August" Only a month before he
died Tears filed Houor.a's ewes a she
glanced down this. probably the last
communication replicdto ere she lost
him. But before the tears could fan
another expression than that Of grief,
one If intense amazement. Incredibly.
fear. swept over her countenauce.
White and scared she stumbled to her
fathers seat. 10y the old library table,
anil. with her heaJ leaning dizzily on
her trembling hands. read over and
over again words which utterly con-
founded her.
..Yol must be conscious, my dear
brother. ran the lines addressed To
Cvpriau Wentworth. 20 him whom she
had called Father who 10 the best of
her IOwlcdge had no TIE of kindred
but hcr~cIf-..You must be conscious
sometimes. | think. that the course you
elected to take towards Hester and
myself has been harsh ONE We have
boil u- mtde close acquaintance
with poverty. since that week when YOU
gave ~ our mother : small portion, and
r. IL u- that of vour own far larger in
ht ritemce We should have mo- share what
~ er. come what might. But neither of
Us would have asked You To recall a
syllable. as far is money goes. for our
own ~Ikc~ alone II i for our children
that ! now write. Spukc~wOman for all.
for Hester has long been invaded; and
for their Young and Unofleuding SikeS /
ask. Will won upt recall the sentence ut
~iN-aud-tweutv wears ago. Will yOu
not put ont helping hand. ever 30 lit
tie. to them. if not % rs, your sisters.
who. surely. I'm the struggles of our
widowed lives. have paid heavily for
haviugthwarted your wishes concerning
them2 VIII YOU not Il must say a |
once uscjl. dear Cyprian. give Just a
fraction Of the wealth we hear yOd are
amasSing for an adopted daughter, alb
soIutelv Am alien ~ birth. To assist mp
To the first bitterly difficult steps of the
worlds ladder Your own near kingSfoiks
If vou cannot forgive Us mothers, Will
YOU not help ou' boys
suddenly thought struck her. \
ring at the bell brought her own maid
Ia the library. \ hJsty order fetched
the now ~cl,Iom-Jl~rd btgu-ham t. the
door. At the sight of this Mrs. Crp>bie.
the rectur'S wife, who. with III h,r
brood. had 1T Huuuria' request taken
M her residence at BdTnSide for the
many months their parsonage was
rebuilding. hurried To the hall from her
own wing If the old house. asking what
tourney lis Young mistress was now
bound ON.
only to Rothcrfield. pale Honoria
answered. Il have heeu looking over
over Papas papers
And veNiug yourself. poor child
said Mr.. Cro>bic. putting her arm
round her as they walked to tina
carriage
And want 10 consult Mr.. Dean
about something Then ON her SIN
mile drive She was soon speeding
II was evening when she came back.
and this s vhat she gut for her pains
The story which sent her questioning
Ia Rofhrriirld was absolutely true
though NOT single person living a
Drru-ide suspected H. Native OF ;
Southern homie. Mr. Wentworth
family affairs had been sealed bDoh e
his uefrhbor-. where he had purchases
hi< property twelve years before Onl
tn his LAWYER. and To him but recently
when his last will was made. had
been known chat his brief Marie,
life. passed chiefly on the Continent
had been chldleS~. and that Hnuoria
inheritre~S of M he possessed. was bu
the daughter If a Young officer and
pretty peuuiles> Girl whom he persuade
tn make a runaway match from ~choO
But - II was: Mr. Wentworth. alway
\ man Of impulse. had CHANGED on tia
Young couple when the @lrl-motht
was diving. her husband just ordere
abroad Ia the active service. IN Whlc
~ fell. The child. whose very e.
iSteuce was a load Of pain To the youn
parents. he adopted from it lnfane.
Giving il his name. making II hls oW
by every possible legal tie, and spen'
ing on 1t all the tenderness Of I'll
position which kuew well how TO
kind. if not opposed.
This much Houoria had eNtractt
frDm her unwilling iuturmcr. who rel
Grated a. she left him: PRAY. prs
remember Miss Wentworth rememb
your supposed father had every right
do a. he choose with hIs fortune by /
fathers last testament the choice
addiug To his two sisters dover W
distinctly left III MS own hands. II IN
married in defiance of his wishes tn
lad no right to expect an extra farthin